Why Didn’t You Buy ‘Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars’?

[wraggster]

With the NPD group confirming that “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars” sold an un-”GTA”-like 89,000 units between its March 17 launch and April 4, the question turns to gamers:
If you’re a “GTA” fan who has purchased games like “Grand Theft Auto IV,” but didn’t buy “Chinatown Wars,” why not?

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/...hinatown-wars/

[Jeric]

Simple economics. I'm broke outside of the essentials (which do nto include gaming, ok that's an 'essential' but not like food, water, electricity, and 'have to' bills).

[Flygon]

I didn't buy it because I don't really care for the GTA series.

[crookedmouth]

I only use the DS for Homebrew, but the low figures most likely stem from the same audience that enjoys GTA also owns an adapter capable of pirating. Anyone who pirated GTA:CW hopefully won't bitch when no more mature titles arrive and are replaced with the next Babyz or Dogz title.

[WhizzBang]

I´m bored of GTA now and will not buy another one. It was fun while it lasted though.

[rancor01]

...Because I'm cheap and I downloaded it. Played it for 3 days, never to touch it again. Its now been deleted from my card to make room for other junk.

[wiggy fuzz]

because my ds lite got nicked, and i didn't have the cash to get a dsi and gta at the same time. will buy it tomorrow, though.

[Shadowblind]

Rented it. Yawned. Returned it.

[shinymusic]

i think crookedmouth got it right. Pirating on the ds is too easy.

[Qmark]

I would venture the guess that the typical GTA player has been a dedicated graphics $#@! since GTA3, and believes the DS to be beneath him, as it doesn't do a bazillion polys with a bazillion particles at 60 FPS.

The PSP GTA didn't do too well either, until someone figured out it was an attack vector for getting into the system guts.